Some Background 1848 Revolutions Cavour Crimean War 1855 Situation 1860/61 ....to be continued next week Some Books (more added weekly)...

Importance of Rivers Part 1 A personal story of the River Frome in Bristol Uses of Rivers thro' the ages with a closer look at Laundry...

A piece in John Lewis-Stempel's 'Nature Notes' in The Times last week caught my eye. He was writing about Arum Maculatum, more commonly...

Prisoners of Time by Christopher Clark. Clark is a great historian of all things German. This book is sub-titled 'Prussians, Germans...

The Habsburgs Martyn Rady The Habsburgs Andrew Wheatcroft The Habsburg Empire Martyn Rady A Concise History of...

January. The beginning of a new journey for all. A time to make New Year Resolutions. In Britain it is often today referred to as 'dry...

Nature always seemed to get on all right until people showed up. The novelist David Baldacci May you never meet a mouse in your pantry...

Many of these words will be familiar to older readers, whether they live in England or elsewhere, or at least the things they describe...

1 Black Panthers 2 US-Canadian Border 3 Teddy Roosevelt 4 Louisiana 5 Texas 6 If born before Independence Britain reserved the right to...

On American History 1 Which militant group in the 1960s did Bobby Seale belong to? 2 What issue between US and UK was finally resolved by...

1 Prince George of Denmark 2 Grandfather 3 Elizabeth I 4 Lord Rosebery 5 Gwilym Lloyd George 6 Lloyd George on Stanley Baldwin 7 A coin...

THE ANSWERS ARE POSTED ON A SEPARATE BLOG. I HOPE THEY ARE ALL CORRECT, UNLIKE LAST YEAR; SOMEHOW I DOUBT IT! ON ENGLISH HISTORY 1 Who...

KASHMIR Land of Lost Enchantment 1753-1846 Changing Masters Muslim majority lack a voice It all began in 1947 with partition Hindu...

NORTH CAUCASUS Introduction Early History in brief Circassians Russo-Circassian war 1763-1864 Circassian Genocide Mountain Jews Russian...

The English Revolution 1688-1689 GM Trevelyan A classic and blessedly short! Devil-Land Clare Jackson A new book which provides...

Modern Wars The World in Conflict Georgia: Rose Revolution 2003 War with Russia 2008 Consequences of war Present situation - concept of...

The New Great Game (or The New Cold War) The Old Great Game now writ large as The New Great Game Borders: geographic, political, and...

Cromwell Antonia Fraser A brilliant and easy to read popular biography The Making of Oliver Cromwell Ronald Hutton A wonderful...

The Modernisation of the Region Globalisation Chinese Tibet - new infrastructure Belt and Road Initiative of China Yet many Tibetans...

Old Countries, New Problems Gerontocracy in USSR The end of The Soviet Union Small Wars in The Caucasus to mid 1990s It all kicks off in...